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The disease spread from places where there were high concentrations of soldiers. It spread all

The Asian Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death, hits London. No one knows why

Bubonic Plague from Asia arrived via Africa at Constantinople in 542 In 542, Roman Emperor

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) discusses with the U.S. Congress issues related to the

A pandemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across a large region,

In 2008, Zimbabwe’s suffering people had a glimmer of hope to lighten the dark decades

A parent’s worst nightmare came true for thousands of families in China in 2008 when

The multinational company Trafigura did a nifty deal in 2006, buying a large amount of

In March 2006 six healthy men, all under the age of 40, signed up as

Towards the end of 2002 reports began to emerge from China of a virulent and

Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial infection of the slender lining that envelops the spinal cord

When the Zaragoza Clinic’s electron accelerator malfunctioned and was repaired in early December 1990, it

In scientific terms Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) are Transmissible Spongiform

Nothing goes to waste where people are living on the breadline, and few opportunities to

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the AIDS epidemic began. The first death assumed

It started with the death of eight-year-old Jaime Garcia in his mother’s arms on the

Described as ‘the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’, the tainted ‘Hemofil’